It delivered one of most fruitful Mavens for some time, perhaps best summed up by consultant Brian Baglow's closing comments.

"If he'd done this in partnership with The Tate Modern, or a partner which could extend the reach of the title into a far larger market, which is normally dismissive or entirely ignorant of gaming, then it could have achieved something incredibly important for the whole games market," he offered

"As it is, I'm yet to be convinced that it's working on a commercial, technical or artistic level. But I'd like to be convinced. I really would."

Gamevil is king of the ring as Android devices power Punch Hero to over 5 million downloads

In editor-at-large Jon Jordan's own words, nothing gets him up in the morning like a nice sales graph.

"It might seem ridiculous in the context of the 'current mobile gaming boom', but as a bellwether, the issues now experienced by Glu - an innovative, globally-operating $160 million market cap company (at time of writing) - will come to impact many others in this space," opened Jordan.

"The most obvious is Apple's continuing hindrance to any incentivised consumer behaviour on iOS. Tapjoy is the company most often mentioned in this context, but such methods are used by many companies from advertisers to monetisation outlets."

Infographic: How Angry Birds shot for the Star Wars and wonAngry Birds is so used to topping various charts around the globe that it's surprisingly not to see it perched at the top of our own little rundown.

Nevertheless, Mike Cook's latest infographic for the site showcased Angry Birds' rise to prominence over the last three years  a rise that now sees it sharing the billing with the mighty Star Wars.

Feel free to share the infographic on your own site or via social media, though please link back to the original article if you do.

A tip off to PocketGamer.biz alerted us to the aforementioned Boyfriend Maker's chat mode, which uses a chat-bot to engage the player in a conversation with their virtual date.

Problem was, said bot often seems to serve up rather explicit responses. Even more alarmingly, during our play test, the game appeared to make a reference to engaging in sexual activity with underage, and unconscious, subjects.

As the story developed over the weekend, it became clear that Boyfriend Maker taps into a third-party chat engine produced by SimSimi. Said engine is also utilised in SimSimi's own chat app, with users actually able to make conversational suggestions to enable the bot to learn.

It's an approach that's clearly open to abuse and, no doubt, explains the bizarre and often offensive responses served up by Boyfriend Maker's chat mode. Crucially, however, SimSimi's own chat app comes with a 17+ age rating, and lets players report and ban phrases they consider offensive.

So far, Boyfriend Maker developer 36 You is yet to respond to our request for a comment, though the app itself appears to have been pulled from sale.

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